Patents by Inventor Toshifumi Kakami

Toshifumi Kakami has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20150151622
    Abstract: In a glass run for a vehicle, a glass run upper side part is formed by a bottom wall, an exterior side wall, an interior side wall, an exterior seal lip, an interior seal lip, an exterior cover lip and an interior cover lip. A door outer panel flange of a door frame is retained by an exterior retention groove formed between the exterior side wall and the exterior cover lip. A door inner panel flange of the door frame is retained by an interior retention groove formed between the interior side wall and the interior cover lip. An engaging protrusion which engages with the tip of the flange is formed in the bottom of at least one of the exterior retention groove and the interior retention groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kakami, Hiroshi Kuzuya, Yoshihiro Miura
  • Publication number: 20090000206
    Abstract: A door weather strip which is difficult to come off a door frame and can be readily manufactured. A vertical side member of the door weather strip has an upper vertical member for attachment to an upper part of a vertical side of the door frame, and a lower vertical member for attachment to a lower part of a vertical side of an outer periphery of a door, the upper vertical member and the lower vertical member are joined to each other via a vertical joint member. A base portion of the upper vertical member is retained with a retainer, and the lower vertical member is retained with clips or double-sided adhesive tapes. The vertical joint member has a core drawing slit in a base portion thereof from the position lower than a joint end of the upper vertical member to the position in the vicinity of a joint end of the lower vertical member such that the core drawing slit is not closed by bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruyuki Okajima, Toshifumi Kakami